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Campus Sustainability
Virtually all of the best sources on campus sustainability are on the
web. This section of our library provides a few book recommendations,
but focuses on campus sustainability links.
Books
Sarah Hammond Creighton, Greening
the Ivory Tower, MIT Press, 1998. - Creighton's book is the most
comprehensive and, unfortunately, the most recent book to cover a wide
range of campus sustainability issues from buildings, grounds and labs
to purchasing, dining and offices. Although the book is slightly dated
now, it is a helpful introduction and general reference.
Kevin Lyons, Buying
for the Future: Contract Management and the Environmental Challenge,
Stylus Publishing, 2000. - Written by the director of purchasing for Rutgers
University, this book gives many helpful tips for purchasers, and it is
especially good at describing the often complicated details of purchasing
for non-purchasers. If you're interested in making change in your campus'
purchasing practices, this book provides an excellent starting point for
understanding theissues, especially if you're at a public institution.
Web sites
National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program http://nwf.org/campusecology
provides a wide range of excellent resources on campus environmental issues.
NWF runs occasional web-based "teach-ins" on hot topics such
as environmental purchasing. The case studies on the web site are especially
helpful as suggestions for action.
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future http://www.ulsf.org
assists colleges and universities in making sustainability an integral
part of curriculum, research, operations and outreach. ULSF is also the
secretariat for signatories of the Talloires Declaration (1990), which
has been signed by more than 290 university presidents and chancellors
around the world.
The Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence (C2E2)
http://esf.uvm.edu/c2e2/ is a group of 20 colleges and universities
nationwide developing new ways of managing and regulating the environmental
impacts of laboratories. It serves as a forum for professional networking
on environmental safety issues and is building a library of articles of
interest to environmental health and safety managers in higher education
on its web site.
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